Trigiani, Adriana

"Helping her Mama decorate the house, bake cupcakes, and make valentines for all six of her siblings for Valentine's Day, Mia Valentina Amore wonders if her Mama has forgotten her when she doesn't receive her own valentine"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a collection of family recipes from Adriana Trigiani, award-winnig playwright and filmaker, that represents tradition-rich Italian cooking, from pastas and meat dishes, to vegetables and desserts. Includes color photographs.

When twenty-one-year-old actress Loretta Young meets the dashing thirty-four-year-old movie star Clark Gable on the set of a movie they're filming together, the two are instantly attracted to each other, despite the fact that Gable is married. And when Sister Alda Ducci comes into her life, the two women form a friendship that spans the decades and carries Loretta through the turmoils and joys of her life.

Ave Maria Mulligan, a thirty-five-year-old spinster in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, is jolted out of her rut when her mother reveals a shocking secret, and things become even more exciting when Elizabeth Taylor announces plans to visit the sleepy town.

Aspiring playwright Kit Zanetti lucks into the story of a lifetime when she accepts an invitation to tea from her elderly upstairs neighbor Aunt Lu and is treated to the tale of Lu's life in Greenwich Village in the 1950s as a beautiful, independent apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at a chic Fifth Avenue department store.

For one hundred years the Angelini Shoe Company has bought its shoe leather from Vechiarelli & Son in Tuscany. This business relationship leads Valentine Roncalli to meet and fall in love with Gianluca Vechiarelli, and the two start a life together with bumps on the road. However, Valentine meets each bump with the knowledge that anyone who can craft a shoe can do nearly anything.

"When a secret about her business partner and lover is revealed during her family's celebration of The Feast of the Seven Fishes, Valentine Roncalli must make life-altering choices as she fights for everything she wants while sustaining her family's business and enjoying life to the fullest"--OCLC.

When Ave Maria Mulligan spends time in Italy and Jack stays home in Virginia to get a new business off the ground with an eager saleswoman, their marriage is tested--but Ave Maria finds help from the Big Stone Gap mountain community.

Back home in Brooklyn, fifteen-year-old Viola has big summer plans but with one best friend going to camp and the other not only working but experiencing her first crush, Viola is glad to be overworked as an unpaid lighting intern when her grandmother's play goes to Broadway.

Enza and Ciro meet as teenagers despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart in the Italian Alps. When Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America, leaving behind a bereft Enza. Unbeknownst to one another, they both build lives in America, until fate intervenes and reunites them, but not before Ciro has volunteered to serve in World War I.